ExTEnDED LEARning OPTiOns
Hands On
move career preparation
outside the classroom with
IT
ExTEnDED lEARninG.
R
ichard Mora is a troubleshooter for one Extended Learning
of the largest oil and gas companies Genesys Works is one of many programs
in Houston. He is part of a staff of available to high school students who
three employees who keep more than wish to acquire hands-on IT experience
150 employees and contractors at El Paso outside the classroom. Extended learning
Energy up-to-date with the latest computer options include job shadowing, internships,
applications and make sure the system is apprenticeships, and volunteering, and they
operating flawlessly. are especially prevalent in the IT cluster.
Not impressed? Well, Mora started doing Robert McAndrews, the technology
this as a senior at Aldine High School intern program coordinator at the Humble
in north Houston. He got experience in Independent School District Career and
IT outside the classroom thanks to an Technical Education (CTE) Center, says he’s
internship through Genesys Works, a been able to develop partnerships with a
program established for targeted students number of businesses in the area. “I match
to help them gain exposure to professionals up our intern candidates with interviews
and their careers. and the business selects who they want to
“At first I wasn’t interested,” admits work with,” he says.
Mora. “After about a week or so, I realized Kyle Fornet, a Humble High School
that these people were serious. They were senior, began the school year interning
really trying to show us something and use at the Hermann Medical Center in the
our skills.” information security department. “As
“We give students the step-by-step a computer operator, I install hardware
process to apply for college and tell them and software, and perform software and
how to seek the money to pay for it,” says hardware troubleshooting,” he says.
Rita Ebach, director of the Genesys Works Within four months, the hospital hired
Summer Training Program. “The students Fornet as a part-time employee working 16
learn how to write resumes, set goals, and to 20 hours per week. He says his interest in
prepare for interviews. We want them to be technology started outside the classroom
well-rounded professionals.” when he job shadowed his father at the age
mIcHael dell,
founder and ceo of round rock–based dell compuTer companY, sTarTed
HIs companY In 1984 as a sTudenT aT THe unIversITY of Texas aT ausTIn.
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